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The Alchemist (New Mermaids)
Ben Jonson
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Description for The Alchemist (New Mermaids)
Paperback. The play script of Jonson's satirical farce, including an extensive introduction, with biographical notes and information about the staging of the play, as well as detailed notes beneath the text on each page. Editor(s): Cook, Elizabeth. Series: New Mermaids. Num Pages: 224 pages, c 5 photographs/line drawings. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 186.
The Alchemist is set during a plague epidemic in the Liberty of Blackfriars in 1610 - and was first performed on tour in 1610 by the company whose London home at Blackfriars was temporarily closed due to a plague epidemic. The play is a sublimely accomplished satirical farce about people's diverse dreams of self-refinement: they all want to transform themselves into something nobler, richer, more powerful, more virile, just as base metal was supposed to be transformed into gold in the alchemical process. During their master's absence from the house, the con-artists Face, Subtle and Doll Common dupe a series ... Read more
The Alchemist is set during a plague epidemic in the Liberty of Blackfriars in 1610 - and was first performed on tour in 1610 by the company whose London home at Blackfriars was temporarily closed due to a plague epidemic. The play is a sublimely accomplished satirical farce about people's diverse dreams of self-refinement: they all want to transform themselves into something nobler, richer, more powerful, more virile, just as base metal was supposed to be transformed into gold in the alchemical process. During their master's absence from the house, the con-artists Face, Subtle and Doll Common dupe a series ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Methuen Drama
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Series
New Mermaids
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408110201
SKU
V9781408110201
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About Ben Jonson
The editor, Elizabeth Cook, is the author of the fiction Achilles (Methuen), editor of Dekker and Middleton's The Roaring Girl for the New Mermaids and of the Oxford Authors' John Keats. She has lectured at the universities of Essex and Leeds and now works freelance.
Reviews for The Alchemist (New Mermaids)
'Ben Johnson's timeless satire.' Andrzej Lukowski, Time Out London, 02/09/10